Display stand



S KISLOVITZ- DISPLAY STAND.

APPLICATION FILED Aue.2. 1921.

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ham a UNITED STATES SAMUEL KISLOVI'I'Z, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DISPLAY SCIAJSI'D.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 28, 1922.

. Application filed August 2, 1921. Serial No. 489,265.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL KIsLovrrz, a citizen of the United States, residing in New York, in the county of Bronx and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display Stands, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to an improvement in display stands; particularly display stands adapted to exhibit goods and merchandise in commodity form to prospective purchasers.

An object of this invention is to provide a display stand which can be manufactured out of a blank of suitable material, such as cardboard, that is capable of'being cut to size and shape and then bent or folded into the desired form; and which is of simple design and ca able of being manufactured in large quantities at low cost.

Other objects and advantages of this invention will appear from the following description. taken with the accompanying drawings, which disclose the best form of my invention now known to me. This description however is illustrative only, and I may make changes in what is actually shown herein; especially as to the shape, size and arrangement of the various parts; without departing from the nature and scope of the invention, as the same is indicated by the broad and general meanings of the terms in which the appended claims are exprexed.

On the drawings:

Figure 1 is a plan view of a blank havin such shape as to enable it to be bent and folded into the form of a display stand according to my invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the stand with the parts in collapsed position; showing the manner in which the stand can be handled for packing and shipping.

Figure 3 is a side View of what is shown in Figure 2.

Figure 4 is a. front view of the stand set up and holding an article of merchandise in osition to be viewed, and

igure 5 is a side view of what is shown in Figure 4.

The same numerals identify the same parts throughout. 1 y

In the particular description of the construction shown in the drawings I use the numeral 1 to indicate a blank or sheet of suitable material, such as cardboard, having a number of parallel transverse creases or lines along which the blank is scored, indicated by the numerals 2, 3, and 4. From the lower edge of this blank adjacent the opposite corners thereof extend a pair of projections 5 which are marked on from the body of the blank by means of additional score lines 6. When the portions of the blank are bent or folded to give the display stand its form, the portion 7 above the score line 2 constitutes a back or display panel upon the face of which suitable advertising matter can be printed or otherwise placed;

while the portion between the lines 2 and 3 will make a top 8; the portion between the score lines 3 and 4 will make a front 9; and the portion between the score lines 4 and 6 will make a base or bottom 10. \Vhen the stand is set up the top 8 and base 10 will be approximately horizontal'while the panel 7 and front 9 will be inclined to the vertical somewhat in rearward direction; the projections 5 being bent upward towards the back 7. Adjacent the opposite ends of the top 8 I cut through the top to provide tongues 1.1 which can be turned downward about the score lines 2 as an axis, and can be pasted or otherwise secured to the projections 5. Hence the stand can easily be collapsed by bending the various parts about the lines 2, 3, 4 and 6 to lay the parts 7, 8 and 9 out fiat and dispose the bottom 10 and projections 5 against the underface of the blank 1; thereby bringing the tongues 11 back into the plane of the top 8. Such a design enables the stand to be completely finished and made ready for setting up; and at the same time permits it to be conveniently collapsed or knocked down so that a large number of them can be laid one upon another to occupy a small space for storing or shipping.

The blank 1 is further provided with a large central opening 12 the top of which is in the back or panel 7 and the opposite end of which is located in the front 9. This opening is illustrated as having generally an oblong shape; but portions of the vertical edges thereof are made concave, as indicated at 13 in the top 8, between the score lines 2 and 3. Such a shape enables the opening to receive and fit a can 14; the forward edge of the bottom of which rests upon the lower edge 15 of the opening in the front 9, and the cylindrical lateral surface of which will make contact with the concave portions 13 of the side ed s of the openings. 12. The top edge of t e openings 12 mayhave a between the projections 5. \Vhen the stand is set up with the can 14 in the opening 12 the tongues 11 attached to the projections 5 leave the openings 18 in the top 8, flanking the can and these openings may be used to hold circulars, booklets or other advertising matter.

Of course the opening 12 can be given any desired shape, and the stand may be employed to exhibit other containers or packages. Any suitable artistic outline may be given to the blank 1.

The forward part of the bottom of the can rests on the edge 15 of the opening 12 in the front 9 and the rear corner at the bottom of the can extends through the space between the projections 5 and rests on the supporting surface upon which the stand is set. Hence the can does not need to rest upon the base at all, and by making the base 10 relatively narrow, a saving of inaterial can be effected.

.As will be understood, the opening 12 is relatively longer than the can, and as already pointed out this opening is not confined to the back or panel 7 but extends across the top 8 and into the front 9. The portion of this opening in the back or panel 7 is much shorter than the length of the can or other article 14; and to put the can into the stand it must be pushed down between the concave portions 13 of the edges of the opening 12, and then the panel 7 is swung forward till the lip 16 gets by'the top 0 the canat the rear and extends down into the closure 17. Then all parts of the stand preserve their true relations to one another. The opening 12, or space to receive the can 14, is thus not disposed between the panel or back 7 and front 9, but extends through the back and front of the stand, and so does the can or other article that is fitted into this opening, and the panel 7 is connected to the front 9 when the stand is finished, both by the top 8, and by the bottom 10, projections 5 and tongues 11.

Having described my invention, what I believe to be new and desire to secure and protect by Letters Patent of the United States, is Y 1. A display stand comprising a panel, a

front, a top and a bottom, the panel extending upward from the top, said panel and the front and top having an opening to receivean article to be exhibited.

2. A display stand comprising a panel, a front, a top and a bottom, the panel extending upward from the top, the panel and the top and front being shaped to receive and engage an article to be exhibited, and the top having openings at each side of said article.

3. A blank for a display stand, said blank being scored transversely to provide portions for a panel, a top, a front and a bottom, and having an openin extending across the portion for the top into the portions for the front and the panel, and tongues cut out of the portions for the top beside said opening to be secured to the por-.

tion for the bottom.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification this 20th day of July, 1921.

'S'A-MUEL KrsLovI'rz. 

